N1 · category
Pommeau
- Family
- Related
- Raw materials
- Fruit
- Place of origin
- Normandy, Brittany, Maine
A blend of unfermented apple must and cider spirit, matured in wood. Technically a mistelle rather than a distilled spirit: documented here for the continuity of cider heritage.
The thing to remember
Three geographical indications — Normandie, Bretagne, Maine — all with protected designation of origin status (AOC).
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Pommeau de Bretagne Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Pommeau de Normandie Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Pommeau du Maine Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
Sources and validation
- Sources of the corpus
- Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
- Corpus updated on
- 1 August 2026
- Validation
- Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.